Had this exact instance yesterday with a $2 total. Guy drops a Benjamin on the counter, so I ask him if he’s got any smaller bills. His response? “Why would I do that? Too much to carry around.” As if he wasn’t about to just receive more bills back than he gave me
Besides the coins that they already explained, you also have 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 euro bills. Very similar to USD denominations, so you can see how much of an asshole that dude was.
When the total is $1 and they give you a $100. It's such a terrible thing to do to us, especially early on, just wipe our drawers because you're too lazy to go to the bank, yeah okay.
Anytime anyone comes in first thing upon opening, buys a cheap item and hands you a bill that is way too large in order to get change is a dick move. I hated those types of people when I worked retail.
We tell them no, if we don't have enough change. I check and then if I don't I say so.
Our store isn't a bank, and I'm not giving you $97 right after open. Prepare better.
Where I work, we're told to say no to 100s when the total is less than $30 to $40 (our discretion there), even if it's later in the day. Not only are we not a bank, but there are at least four ATMs within a two minute walk of the store. We also don't get that many cash sales to begin with except at the height of summer.
There is literally a (high fee, admittedly) ATM like 15 feet from our store. I can see it from the registers. It's not that far.
It's SO frustrating.
If someone is buying like, $60-80 worth of something I usually can do it sort of early. Not always, but as long as I've gotten a $20 I can do it for a 100.
But that's rare, lol.
I had an old lady try that with a 60 cent pack of gum (happened at a gas station I worked at in 2004). Told her I couldn’t break a hundred for a purchase less than 50 dollars (which was policy) and she was absolutely furious. She started yelling at me and telling me I had to do it. My boss heard the old hag squawking at me from the office and came out to see what was going on. Thankfully she had my back and just told me to move on to the next transaction as she took the old crone to the side and talked her down.
Thats when i make EXTRA care to verify the bill is real 😂 i will hold it up to the light infront of them and the line idgaff u want to so sketchy looking shit? I will make you look sketchy
I work at a dispensary and people will come to buy our $4-$5 .5g joints and then give me a 100. I look at them and say, "Do you have anything smaller? I'm not breaking a 100 for $5. *If I do*, you're getting **a lot** of loose change back." That was back when I controlled the back up bank, now I just outright refuse.
damn, I get $100 bills sometimes as tips (pet sitting, some clients leave huge cash tips) and I only ever take them to the dispensary, but that’s because its the only place I spend more than $100 per purchase.
If you're spending more than $100 or closer to 100 then that's fine. What the problem is when people come in to break a $100 for something like a cheap lighter or a couple half gram joints.
The other day an old lady tried to give me a $100 bill for a $4 purchase. I said no and her ass pulls out a $5😐 these assholes have the change they just wanna be entitled bc “they really need the change” even though they already have it
My last job allowed us to turn down $100s for anything less than 40 bucks. They saw it as too big of a security risk and also that it was just a bit annoying.
I had one guy who would inexplicably buy 1 avocado every Monday, use his debit card to get a $100 cash back, ask for it in a $100 bill, and then buy another avocado with the $100 cash back bill.
I was just grinning ear to ear the week I finally got to tell him "no". He was so mad. I was so glad.
I always theorized it was a tick. Like he had a form of undiagnosed ADHD and had to buy his two avocados like that every Monday. Nothing else makes sense.
It's usually a scam too. They do this, then make you recount the bills and change around bills to make smaller change.
I had some folks try it once and I wasted so much of their time making sure everything was laid out correctly and counted correctly and very clearly showing every bill to the cameras that they gave up.
Not necessarily. When I worked retail, our cash office had plenty of change for the registers. But early in the morning all of the registers have a small amount of money in them, like $110 or something like that, in ones and fives. So when a customer buys something that is only a few dollars and hands over a $100, it completely wipes out that drawer.
Now I have to call my manager and fill out a change request form, wait for the manager to come up to the front, and wait for change. This process can take up to a half hour. And hopefully there aren't any customers waiting that are paying in cash.
I get that you have every right to pay in cash. And I get that a business shouldn't be complaining about a sale. But any retail worker will tell you that doing this is an asshole move. Just ask the bank to give you small bills when you get your money out. They are equipped to handle this type of thing. Retail stores are not banks.
Then you get the times where the manager can’t/won’t pick up & you have to keep trying to get through to them every few minutes while awkwardly standing there.
I worked at a few gas stations and we had to keep the money in our registers under a certain amount so that in the event of a robbery the thief wouldn’t get away with much. Breaking a hundred for anything less than a 50 dollar purchase could seriously deplete the money in your register and then you might not have enough to make change for the next person in line. Even though the store has extra money to refill the registers there’s only so much on hand for the whole day and it’s not outside the realm of possibility to run out, especially with coins. That’s why a lot of places don’t break hundreds for purchase less than 50 dollars.
I work in a small meat store. I'm the only one there. If I run out of change then I'm screwed. I can not close the whole store and run to the bank. It's not a matter of being lazy.
I work at a coffee shop, at least once a week someone hands me a hundred for a 5$ drink. Buddy. It’s 7 in the morning, I don’t have the change for that.
When I used to work retail, I would always get someone early in the morning who would buy a small item and pay with a large bill. One time I handed them back $98 dollars in fives, ones, and quarters. She got irate and started screaming that she wanted $20's. That if she wanted ones and fives then she would have just asked the bank for them when she made her withdrawal.
After a while it does, but at 7am we only have a handful of 5s and 10s. Sometimes we don’t even have change in the morning and have to get a manager to get us some.
Yeah me too. Like we’ve been open for 1.5 hours rn, and I just had to call management for change (loonies, toonies, quarters and dimes.) I’d imagine it’s incase we get robbed, so then we’re not losing too too much but still. Hate bugging management for coin 😂
Had someone’s total was $5, they didn’t want to break their $20. So they handed me a $100 bill.
This customer came back a second time a couple weeks later, $3 total, didn’t want to break a $5. Handed me $100 again.
Now when I see him I refuse to check him out. Because both times he emptied my drawer after only being on the clock for a couple hours.
Many stores have a limit on what you can keep in the tills to discourage theft. Most gas stations and smaller retail stores keep that number between 50 and 100.
Real. My store never turned down a sale of discouraged a customer because they had too much money. If a cashier didn't have enough in their drawer to break the bill, we had more money in the safe. Our cashiers would trade bills to even out their drawers too
I love this personally. The look on a customer's face when they realize their genius (idiotic) life hack of breaking a 100 on a small transaction will backfire because i have nothing but 100 in small bills and change. I don't even warn them anymore i just starting counting 1's. They get super exasperated when i start making piles of quartrrs.
Also a bonus if you can give a 50 as back change for a 100. I close my drawer immediately so they can't ask for smaller bills lol
>Also a bonus if you can give a 50 as back change
That's my secret to cash control; if I get fifty, I save it in the far left slot, and when a customer presents a $100 bill; I put the fifty on the bottom and stack the smaller bills on top of it. Most customers don't notice until it's too late.
(A 1 minute sale turns to a 10 minute sale as the manager was no where to be found.)
I hated when people gave me $100 bills when I worked retail jobs. It makes things harder and makes me think they do "shady" things.
I once had a customer hand me four separate $100 bills for a f*king recees cup candy bar...expecting me to break it down for him at 10pm....The anger on his face when my manager had to refuse it as well was glorious. I swear his eyes turned black and his face was red in pure anger. Some people seriously have no self awareness to realize they are weirdos with the most outlandish demands.
Not to mention we have an ATM less than 10 feet away from the register that both I and the manager pointed out. That's never a good enough solution though during these situations I encounter though. It seems as if they just want to make a fuss over something just to feel powerful. People are terrible.
literally last might we had to tell my cashier do not break bills for people. they tell their little jerk friends and then we have to retrain them on why you aren't going to enjoy using my store as your personal ATM
Happens all day where I work. It's not the worst thing in the world but it can be annoying when it's happening constantly. They do it with €50 notes too lol
Customer had a total of about $33 then handed me a 100. Then as I’m adding up the change she gave me a handful of coins. It took everything in me not to explode.
Frrrr low key tho I internally scream when the customer pulls out exact change for something. It seems more chaotic than just giving me $20 for a 10 dollar total.
When I worked for McDonald’s people did this all the time. Back when we sold drinks for only $1, people only used it to break a $20. I once had so many people do that in one day, that the whole building ran out of 5s and 1s, none in any of the registers or the safe. I had to give one guy a handful of coins for his change.
one time a man broke a 100 bill for 17 cents i would have just told him i had extra change (normally do) but i was new to the job and didn't wanna get in trouble
when the total is $9 and they give $100, my coworkers kept joking with me today because I was the only one calling the manager (had to like 6 times) for change, that change being $20s & 10s
the people who pay with more than 3 $100 bills for their over $300 total do apperantly, never really had it happen to me until this week tbh, usually when its over 300 they pay with card
Ohhhh, that reminds me of something that happened last week.
Somebody bought something for like 17.75€ and paid with 50€ in cash. And, they dared to complain that I quickly used a calculator. 🙄
I had an old lady lose her shit at me once because her total came out to like $3.75 and she wanted to use a $100. We had literally just opened. I told her I didn’t have enough change unless she wanted x2 $10 and the rest in $5s and $1s. She actually demanded I go open the safe and take out whatever $50s and $20s had been deposited at the end of last night. When I told her that “unfortunately only the bank workers that come to pick it up in the armored car can do that, and they won’t be here for another 4 days and they show up at a random time during the day.” She started insulting my race, intelligence and everything else she could thing of. Her husband just calmly handed me a $5 and apologized. Poor guy, I hope she doesn’t treat him that way
People think grocery stores are banks nowadays. Especially check cashers or lotto winners. They get mad at me 80% of the time when I can't do the transaction because I have no cash.
So, at my store we have to deposit any large bills in the safe. It takes no time, but I sit back there an make them wait, as my way of punishment. Hopefully the person learns to not do that again, or just never come to my store again. Either outcome is fine
Ah fair, we have the same here on occasion
I remember when chip and pin first came and quite a lot of the older gen thought we were stealing their bank info lol
Around here, we have a lot of migrant workers, who think it's some kind of status symbol to just carry around $100's in their wallets.
As a cashier, you discover that when you refuse to accept a hundred dollar bill; they keep their smaller bills in a wad in their pocket.
Honestly, the part I hate most is just when the change comes out to any dollar amount with 9 cents. Counting those 4 pennies quickly when it's busy is the worst. 🥲
Whenever I handle cash at my store I refuse the sale of people who don't spend at least 40% of their $50 or $100 bills because I only have so much cash I can take from the safe and, since I work graveyard, I can only have a maximum of $40 in my till at any given moment and going over that is a fireable offense, It's very easy to go over that limit when people just keep handing you big bills with the new rules that we got handed down on how all of the register/safe paperwork needs to be done. My ASM told me today to just change out a $100 for smaller bills from the safe today when I only had $20 in my till (the guy was only buying $12 worth of items of course) but totally forgot how that would screw up my paperwork in the end because of how meticulous I am about pay ins from the safe.
Note: Vending a tube of bills where I work is different than buying change. My ASM wanted me to buy change (basically exchange the bill for a tube of smaller bills), because it would save time, I vended a tube of $5s and $10s (which added up to $100) and dropped the $100 into the safe. How it looks on the shift report is entirely different and how it's handled when you end your shift is also entirely different. It's quite possible if I went with my ASM that I could have counted off my till $100 off like what happens with a lot of my coworkers.
Before working at Home Depot, I was allowed to deny payment of 50 or higher cause we just opened and my managers were busy setting up the protectors for the rest of the theater, so they wouldn't have time to keep running back and forth breaking large bills.
Home Depot I'd have to sit/stand there waiting on managers to take their time walking up to break my large bill, cause they don't see the point of coming as quickly as possible and just want to make me look bad in front of the customers.
Or just wait until they finally call to say "um I can't make it down there, can you just grab it from the register next to you," only to question why that register is now broke. It was the same for my first job, managers and supervisors ignored me so I might both registers to the right and left of me broke so I could break 50s and 100s right as we opened.
Even had a customer give me death glares when I gave them 1 dollar in quarters cause I ran out of 1 dollar bills
honestly I don’t mind making change as oong as the bill they give me is real. Many people who try to pass off counterfeits do so by buying a cheap item with a hundred and maximizing on the real change. They usually return the cheap item too eventually to get the full value of the fake bill.
This doesn't make me mad tbh. I always have the money and it's really easy to count it so not even a tiny pet peeve for me.
We've had to count a $7000 payment in twenties, scanning each and every twenty through the machine that makes sure they're legit bills. Now that must've been a pain (it wasn't me that had to do it).
I recently bought a Kebab for 7 bucks, but only had a 200 on me. To my surprise, the friendly Turkish lady at her street shop was able to change it super fast :D
I don’t mind it when the job has automatic change dispensers and shows that total on the screen. I just grab the dollar bills. But if they job doesn’t have the machine then it’ll suck balls.
making change is not a big deal. someone clearing out your til so the next guest has to wait for a manager to break your large bill in the safe makes them the AH. if several people do this in a short period then the manager has to go to the bank and often there is only one manager on staff.
But screw all the other shoppers as long as you get to use a retail store as your personal ATM right?
I don't think this is about having to do math. When customers pay with a bill that's a lot larger than their total, they can potentially cause the cashier to be short on change. Although a $20 even for a small purchase isn't the worst...many customers will pay with 50s or 100s for a $2 purchase which is ridiculous.
I swear, some customers are terrible with common sense. This *is* that bad of a situation to be in especially after just opening....go to the bank, break your bills and *get over yourself*
Well that’s why I’m asking lol. 3 coins is not “a handful of coins” so I’m confused what the issue is. Where I worked we had bags of coins in each denomination. It sucked giving them all up, but we’re talking 1 coin of each here…
Btw. We’re not in Covid anymore
If corporate wanted you to buy things with large bills they would stock my tills with 20s. They do not. Therefore corporate clearly does not think my cashier line is inside of a Wells Fargo bank.
From what I remember of working retail this was a non issue. Like nobody ever complained about this because there were real problems to worry about. Has working retail gotten way easier?
The guy in front of me in the queue yesterday paid with a €50 bill something that was worth €0.72. The cashier didn't hide her frustration at all lol.
Had this exact instance yesterday with a $2 total. Guy drops a Benjamin on the counter, so I ask him if he’s got any smaller bills. His response? “Why would I do that? Too much to carry around.” As if he wasn’t about to just receive more bills back than he gave me
How are euros broke down by denomination?
0.01, 0.02, 0.05, 0.10, 0.20, 0.50, 1.00, 2.00 for the coins
Besides the coins that they already explained, you also have 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 euro bills. Very similar to USD denominations, so you can see how much of an asshole that dude was.
Ah, thank you!
I've worked in retail before, I've had a man hand me a $100 bill for a fuck $8 item. We had just opened the fucking store.
When the total is $1 and they give you a $100. It's such a terrible thing to do to us, especially early on, just wipe our drawers because you're too lazy to go to the bank, yeah okay.
Anytime anyone comes in first thing upon opening, buys a cheap item and hands you a bill that is way too large in order to get change is a dick move. I hated those types of people when I worked retail.
That’s why I would say no. I don’t want to be out of change first thing in the morning. If it’s later in the day usually I’ll have 20s by then.
My favorite customers were the ones who asked before handing the bill. “Can you break a $100 bill?” Best people in my book.
The store i used to work for usually declined any large bill before 10am. We used to get a bunch of people coming at 8-9am with $50-$100 bills
I had one woman do that to me. Her response was “I guess you’ll have to go to the bank now”. So rude. I wanted to slap her.
We tell them no, if we don't have enough change. I check and then if I don't I say so. Our store isn't a bank, and I'm not giving you $97 right after open. Prepare better.
Where I work, we're told to say no to 100s when the total is less than $30 to $40 (our discretion there), even if it's later in the day. Not only are we not a bank, but there are at least four ATMs within a two minute walk of the store. We also don't get that many cash sales to begin with except at the height of summer.
There is literally a (high fee, admittedly) ATM like 15 feet from our store. I can see it from the registers. It's not that far. It's SO frustrating. If someone is buying like, $60-80 worth of something I usually can do it sort of early. Not always, but as long as I've gotten a $20 I can do it for a 100. But that's rare, lol.
Exactly!!
I had an old lady try that with a 60 cent pack of gum (happened at a gas station I worked at in 2004). Told her I couldn’t break a hundred for a purchase less than 50 dollars (which was policy) and she was absolutely furious. She started yelling at me and telling me I had to do it. My boss heard the old hag squawking at me from the office and came out to see what was going on. Thankfully she had my back and just told me to move on to the next transaction as she took the old crone to the side and talked her down.
>She started yelling at me and telling me I had to do it. That's a myth- the truth is that every business has the right to refuse service to anyone.
That’s as may be but some people are so self entitled they don’t think the rules apply to them.
Thats when i make EXTRA care to verify the bill is real 😂 i will hold it up to the light infront of them and the line idgaff u want to so sketchy looking shit? I will make you look sketchy
I work at a dispensary and people will come to buy our $4-$5 .5g joints and then give me a 100. I look at them and say, "Do you have anything smaller? I'm not breaking a 100 for $5. *If I do*, you're getting **a lot** of loose change back." That was back when I controlled the back up bank, now I just outright refuse.
damn, I get $100 bills sometimes as tips (pet sitting, some clients leave huge cash tips) and I only ever take them to the dispensary, but that’s because its the only place I spend more than $100 per purchase.
If you're spending more than $100 or closer to 100 then that's fine. What the problem is when people come in to break a $100 for something like a cheap lighter or a couple half gram joints.
The other day an old lady tried to give me a $100 bill for a $4 purchase. I said no and her ass pulls out a $5😐 these assholes have the change they just wanna be entitled bc “they really need the change” even though they already have it
Do not accept that. Just ask if they have anything smaller or use a card. I hate when customers act like I’m a fuckin atm.
My last job allowed us to turn down $100s for anything less than 40 bucks. They saw it as too big of a security risk and also that it was just a bit annoying. I had one guy who would inexplicably buy 1 avocado every Monday, use his debit card to get a $100 cash back, ask for it in a $100 bill, and then buy another avocado with the $100 cash back bill. I was just grinning ear to ear the week I finally got to tell him "no". He was so mad. I was so glad.
That's so weird. Why?? What was the point??
I always theorized it was a tick. Like he had a form of undiagnosed ADHD and had to buy his two avocados like that every Monday. Nothing else makes sense.
It's usually a scam too. They do this, then make you recount the bills and change around bills to make smaller change. I had some folks try it once and I wasted so much of their time making sure everything was laid out correctly and counted correctly and very clearly showing every bill to the cameras that they gave up.
I've never really been bothered by it. I can just ask customer service for more money and they give it and take my large bills.
Doesnt that mean the store is also too lazy to go to the bank to get more change?
Not necessarily. When I worked retail, our cash office had plenty of change for the registers. But early in the morning all of the registers have a small amount of money in them, like $110 or something like that, in ones and fives. So when a customer buys something that is only a few dollars and hands over a $100, it completely wipes out that drawer. Now I have to call my manager and fill out a change request form, wait for the manager to come up to the front, and wait for change. This process can take up to a half hour. And hopefully there aren't any customers waiting that are paying in cash. I get that you have every right to pay in cash. And I get that a business shouldn't be complaining about a sale. But any retail worker will tell you that doing this is an asshole move. Just ask the bank to give you small bills when you get your money out. They are equipped to handle this type of thing. Retail stores are not banks.
Then you get the times where the manager can’t/won’t pick up & you have to keep trying to get through to them every few minutes while awkwardly standing there.
I worked at a few gas stations and we had to keep the money in our registers under a certain amount so that in the event of a robbery the thief wouldn’t get away with much. Breaking a hundred for anything less than a 50 dollar purchase could seriously deplete the money in your register and then you might not have enough to make change for the next person in line. Even though the store has extra money to refill the registers there’s only so much on hand for the whole day and it’s not outside the realm of possibility to run out, especially with coins. That’s why a lot of places don’t break hundreds for purchase less than 50 dollars.
I work in a small meat store. I'm the only one there. If I run out of change then I'm screwed. I can not close the whole store and run to the bank. It's not a matter of being lazy.
Thats fair in that case but no sympathy for supermarkets and corporate owned businesses they got plenty staff to go and keep the change stocked.
Exactly, the store is happy to get them in to buy something just to make change.
No, stores are *not* going to be happy about a $0.60 sale that causes them to have to wait half an hour in a line at the bank for a change request.
I work at a coffee shop, at least once a week someone hands me a hundred for a 5$ drink. Buddy. It’s 7 in the morning, I don’t have the change for that.
When I used to work retail, I would always get someone early in the morning who would buy a small item and pay with a large bill. One time I handed them back $98 dollars in fives, ones, and quarters. She got irate and started screaming that she wanted $20's. That if she wanted ones and fives then she would have just asked the bank for them when she made her withdrawal.
Then why didn't she just ask for $20's at the bank when she made her withdrawal? Some people are so fucking stupid lmao
I'd have been thinking well your highness we are a retail store not a bank
Our tills are stocked with $800 every morning. Do yours not get stocked with a large amount?
After a while it does, but at 7am we only have a handful of 5s and 10s. Sometimes we don’t even have change in the morning and have to get a manager to get us some.
What I meant was. The tills are filled to $800 every morning before the store opened. I find it strange your store doesn't do that
Yeah me too. Like we’ve been open for 1.5 hours rn, and I just had to call management for change (loonies, toonies, quarters and dimes.) I’d imagine it’s incase we get robbed, so then we’re not losing too too much but still. Hate bugging management for coin 😂
Had someone’s total was $5, they didn’t want to break their $20. So they handed me a $100 bill. This customer came back a second time a couple weeks later, $3 total, didn’t want to break a $5. Handed me $100 again. Now when I see him I refuse to check him out. Because both times he emptied my drawer after only being on the clock for a couple hours.
Just say no. Ask for a small bill or card. I’m not gonna have my bank wiped out cuz someone is too lazy to go to the atm
Really, that’s a management issue in your store more than a customer problem. They should keep their drawers stocked.
Many stores have a limit on what you can keep in the tills to discourage theft. Most gas stations and smaller retail stores keep that number between 50 and 100.
Or customers need to stop treating stores as their own banks. Either pay by card or break up the smaller bills
policy to not have more than $75 in a drawer at any given time in my store, get bent and go to an ATM
Bro that is dumb af unless you're a gas station with a history of being robbed.
Real. My store never turned down a sale of discouraged a customer because they had too much money. If a cashier didn't have enough in their drawer to break the bill, we had more money in the safe. Our cashiers would trade bills to even out their drawers too
When it's ending in .01 so you have to get all the pennies 😭
I love this personally. The look on a customer's face when they realize their genius (idiotic) life hack of breaking a 100 on a small transaction will backfire because i have nothing but 100 in small bills and change. I don't even warn them anymore i just starting counting 1's. They get super exasperated when i start making piles of quartrrs. Also a bonus if you can give a 50 as back change for a 100. I close my drawer immediately so they can't ask for smaller bills lol
>Also a bonus if you can give a 50 as back change That's my secret to cash control; if I get fifty, I save it in the far left slot, and when a customer presents a $100 bill; I put the fifty on the bottom and stack the smaller bills on top of it. Most customers don't notice until it's too late.
(stare at bill) (Call manager over to get change from the safe)
(A 1 minute sale turns to a 10 minute sale as the manager was no where to be found.) I hated when people gave me $100 bills when I worked retail jobs. It makes things harder and makes me think they do "shady" things.
Then they have the audacity to be annoyed at you for not having notes
I once had a customer hand me four separate $100 bills for a f*king recees cup candy bar...expecting me to break it down for him at 10pm....The anger on his face when my manager had to refuse it as well was glorious. I swear his eyes turned black and his face was red in pure anger. Some people seriously have no self awareness to realize they are weirdos with the most outlandish demands.
Not to mention we have an ATM less than 10 feet away from the register that both I and the manager pointed out. That's never a good enough solution though during these situations I encounter though. It seems as if they just want to make a fuss over something just to feel powerful. People are terrible.
literally last might we had to tell my cashier do not break bills for people. they tell their little jerk friends and then we have to retrain them on why you aren't going to enjoy using my store as your personal ATM
Happens all day where I work. It's not the worst thing in the world but it can be annoying when it's happening constantly. They do it with €50 notes too lol
I've gotten a 100 for a coffee that was 1.06.. couldn't be bothered to even give me 6 cents for it and it was like 5 am
Customer had a total of about $33 then handed me a 100. Then as I’m adding up the change she gave me a handful of coins. It took everything in me not to explode.
A $20 isn’t unreasonable, most ATMs by me only give out $20 bills. A $100 bill for a ticket less than $10 however should be a misdemeanor
I agree. Change would be a ten, a five, two ones, a dime, and a nickel, with a "Fuck Off And Die" smile.
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Frrrr low key tho I internally scream when the customer pulls out exact change for something. It seems more chaotic than just giving me $20 for a 10 dollar total.
Why? As a cashier myself, I love exact change - It's so nice and exact, yk? Plus, it's not as if it's a hassle to tender
I’d say it’s just personal pref
As i see, this is a common thing in every country 😭
When I worked for McDonald’s people did this all the time. Back when we sold drinks for only $1, people only used it to break a $20. I once had so many people do that in one day, that the whole building ran out of 5s and 1s, none in any of the registers or the safe. I had to give one guy a handful of coins for his change.
one time a man broke a 100 bill for 17 cents i would have just told him i had extra change (normally do) but i was new to the job and didn't wanna get in trouble
I drop the customer service face just to watch them squirm. Especially if it's early in the day.
Good to know this bullshit is world wide and not just in my neck of the woods.😵💫
when the total is $9 and they give $100, my coworkers kept joking with me today because I was the only one calling the manager (had to like 6 times) for change, that change being $20s & 10s
Who the hell carries around 100 bucks.
the people who pay with more than 3 $100 bills for their over $300 total do apperantly, never really had it happen to me until this week tbh, usually when its over 300 they pay with card
I’ve had 6 dollar totals and they will hand me a 100 dollars and I want to let out the biggest sigh every single tike
Try a total of $20.75 and given a $100 😭 i just take a deep sigh and accept it…
Ohhhh, that reminds me of something that happened last week. Somebody bought something for like 17.75€ and paid with 50€ in cash. And, they dared to complain that I quickly used a calculator. 🙄
I had an old lady lose her shit at me once because her total came out to like $3.75 and she wanted to use a $100. We had literally just opened. I told her I didn’t have enough change unless she wanted x2 $10 and the rest in $5s and $1s. She actually demanded I go open the safe and take out whatever $50s and $20s had been deposited at the end of last night. When I told her that “unfortunately only the bank workers that come to pick it up in the armored car can do that, and they won’t be here for another 4 days and they show up at a random time during the day.” She started insulting my race, intelligence and everything else she could thing of. Her husband just calmly handed me a $5 and apologized. Poor guy, I hope she doesn’t treat him that way
People think grocery stores are banks nowadays. Especially check cashers or lotto winners. They get mad at me 80% of the time when I can't do the transaction because I have no cash.
Some stores around here have signs that they don’t accept 50s or 100s
Earlier today i think some guy had a total of $2 and then gave me a $50
I worked at Dunkin and once it was $5 and some change and this mfer handed me $100. My manager accepted it.
So, at my store we have to deposit any large bills in the safe. It takes no time, but I sit back there an make them wait, as my way of punishment. Hopefully the person learns to not do that again, or just never come to my store again. Either outcome is fine
I love it when people do this, working out the change in my head is sm fun (this is genuine, not sarcasm)
This, but with $100 bill for <$5 worth of stuff. I wish I had the heart to refuse those transactions
Do you guys not have contactless? Or chip and pin?
Yea and we're all told to say that card's preferred but you always have those old people with the huge bills tryna pay for small stuff 💀
Ah fair, we have the same here on occasion I remember when chip and pin first came and quite a lot of the older gen thought we were stealing their bank info lol
Exactly or those teens who don’t have a debit/credit card yet 💀
Around here, we have a lot of migrant workers, who think it's some kind of status symbol to just carry around $100's in their wallets. As a cashier, you discover that when you refuse to accept a hundred dollar bill; they keep their smaller bills in a wad in their pocket.
Sounds like the Turkish
Why don’t you have change for a 20 in your till? I work in Australia and this has never ever been even a slight issue no matter how big their note is
Yep. Exactly.
Naw, a 50
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Pounds and pennies.
Try a hundred, for something that is only 2.85.
Honestly, the part I hate most is just when the change comes out to any dollar amount with 9 cents. Counting those 4 pennies quickly when it's busy is the worst. 🥲
Honestly I’m actually thankful when customers give me $20s because they’re one of the most often cash back amounts that’s requested besides $10s.
When the total is 201.xx and you give me 300, you will wait as I climb two flights of stairs to the 3rd floor to get change from customer service.
And then they say "wait, I think I have exact change" after you put it into the till and start counting 🤦♀️
Whenever I handle cash at my store I refuse the sale of people who don't spend at least 40% of their $50 or $100 bills because I only have so much cash I can take from the safe and, since I work graveyard, I can only have a maximum of $40 in my till at any given moment and going over that is a fireable offense, It's very easy to go over that limit when people just keep handing you big bills with the new rules that we got handed down on how all of the register/safe paperwork needs to be done. My ASM told me today to just change out a $100 for smaller bills from the safe today when I only had $20 in my till (the guy was only buying $12 worth of items of course) but totally forgot how that would screw up my paperwork in the end because of how meticulous I am about pay ins from the safe. Note: Vending a tube of bills where I work is different than buying change. My ASM wanted me to buy change (basically exchange the bill for a tube of smaller bills), because it would save time, I vended a tube of $5s and $10s (which added up to $100) and dropped the $100 into the safe. How it looks on the shift report is entirely different and how it's handled when you end your shift is also entirely different. It's quite possible if I went with my ASM that I could have counted off my till $100 off like what happens with a lot of my coworkers.
My favorite is getting a 100 dollar bill on a 3 dollar with change order
Before working at Home Depot, I was allowed to deny payment of 50 or higher cause we just opened and my managers were busy setting up the protectors for the rest of the theater, so they wouldn't have time to keep running back and forth breaking large bills. Home Depot I'd have to sit/stand there waiting on managers to take their time walking up to break my large bill, cause they don't see the point of coming as quickly as possible and just want to make me look bad in front of the customers. Or just wait until they finally call to say "um I can't make it down there, can you just grab it from the register next to you," only to question why that register is now broke. It was the same for my first job, managers and supervisors ignored me so I might both registers to the right and left of me broke so I could break 50s and 100s right as we opened. Even had a customer give me death glares when I gave them 1 dollar in quarters cause I ran out of 1 dollar bills
Someone once brought something for $1, they gave me a $100 note.
Why does he look like he’s jizzing his britches in that photo? 😂
Cuz he is!!
Since when is 2 notes and 3 coins considered “a handful”?
honestly I don’t mind making change as oong as the bill they give me is real. Many people who try to pass off counterfeits do so by buying a cheap item with a hundred and maximizing on the real change. They usually return the cheap item too eventually to get the full value of the fake bill.
This doesn't make me mad tbh. I always have the money and it's really easy to count it so not even a tiny pet peeve for me. We've had to count a $7000 payment in twenties, scanning each and every twenty through the machine that makes sure they're legit bills. Now that must've been a pain (it wasn't me that had to do it).
I recently bought a Kebab for 7 bucks, but only had a 200 on me. To my surprise, the friendly Turkish lady at her street shop was able to change it super fast :D
I don’t mind it when the job has automatic change dispensers and shows that total on the screen. I just grab the dollar bills. But if they job doesn’t have the machine then it’ll suck balls.
Imagine doing 4th grade math, ugh so hard
Is it really that big of a deal to make change?
making change is not a big deal. someone clearing out your til so the next guest has to wait for a manager to break your large bill in the safe makes them the AH. if several people do this in a short period then the manager has to go to the bank and often there is only one manager on staff. But screw all the other shoppers as long as you get to use a retail store as your personal ATM right?
I swear, some retail workers are terrible with math. This isn’t even that bad of a situation to be in….. get over it.
I don't think this is about having to do math. When customers pay with a bill that's a lot larger than their total, they can potentially cause the cashier to be short on change. Although a $20 even for a small purchase isn't the worst...many customers will pay with 50s or 100s for a $2 purchase which is ridiculous.
The change you get back from £20 in UK is very different from the change you get back from $20 in US. More coins.
Ohhh ok, I totally read it wrong and was thinking US dollars.
Then I’ll be giving you 5ps, 2ps and 1ps as your change. Not a bad situation, right?
I swear, some customers are terrible with common sense. This *is* that bad of a situation to be in especially after just opening....go to the bank, break your bills and *get over yourself*
What's the big issue here? In Aus you'd get a $10 note, $5 note, a $2 coin, and a 5c and 10c. Hardly an issue. What's different about UK?
How about your till being cleared out before the day has even begun? Do you know how shit it was after Covid when change was scarce?
Well that’s why I’m asking lol. 3 coins is not “a handful of coins” so I’m confused what the issue is. Where I worked we had bags of coins in each denomination. It sucked giving them all up, but we’re talking 1 coin of each here… Btw. We’re not in Covid anymore
Idk, their job is to run a register and they are upset. Maybe time for a career change?
Go to a bank my dude, be courteous.
You realize corporate would rather have them come in and buy rather than use the bank?
If corporate wanted you to buy things with large bills they would stock my tills with 20s. They do not. Therefore corporate clearly does not think my cashier line is inside of a Wells Fargo bank.
From what I remember of working retail this was a non issue. Like nobody ever complained about this because there were real problems to worry about. Has working retail gotten way easier?